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/mæt͡ʃ/ · noun
(sports) A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet (commonly called a "bout"), a baseball game, or a cricket match..
My local team are playing in a match against their arch-rivals today.
Can you play billiards? / Yes, do you wish to have a match with me? / Let us simply play (a game) for pleasure. We needn't have a match, as I don't like to gamble.
Ferrer his Taberd vvith rich Verry ſpred, / VVell knovvne in many a vvarlike match before; […]
A solemn match was made; he lost the prize.
He knew he had met his match.
Government […] makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow subjects.
Dean Ippolito looks like an ordinary kid. But at chess, he is a knight of battle. Most adults are no match for him.
She […] was looked upon as the richest match of the West.
Use match when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Match means (sports) A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet (commonly called a "bout"), a baseball game, or a cricket match..
Common synonyms include comport, light, lucifer, spunk.
Possible antonyms include differ, disaccord, disagree, discord.
My local team are playing in a match against their arch-rivals today.
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